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Secret killing and murder by magic in the law of Adomnán / Bridgette Slavin -- Discursive murders: the St. Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Mordor / Jay Paul Gates -- Mourning murderers in medieval Jewish law / Pinchas Roth -- Treacherous murder: language and meaning in French murder trials / Jolanta N. Komornicka -- 'Mordre wol out': murder and justice in Chaucer / Larissa Tracy -- Bringing murder to light: death, publishing and performance in Icelandic sagas / Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar -- 'I think this bacon is wearing shoes': comedy and murder in the old French fabliaux / Anne Latowsky -- 'Chevaliers ocirre': manslaughter, and reputation: killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Dwayne C. Coleman -- Poisoning as a means of state assassination in early modern Venice / Matthew Lubin -- Defamation, a murder more foul?: The 'second murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans (d. 1407) reconsidered / Emily J. Hutchison -- 'A general murther, a universal slaughter': strategies of anti-Jesuit defamation in reporting assassination in the early modern period / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg -- Negotiating murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours / Jeffrey Doolittle -- Poisoning, killing and murder in the Edictus Rothari / Thomas Gobbitt -- Murder, foul and fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin / G. Koolemans Beynen -- A multiple poisoning in the city of Valencia: Sanxo Calbó's crime (1442) / Carmel Ferragud -- A case of mariticide in late medieval France / Patricia Turning -- Monstrous un-making: maternal infanticide and female agency in early modern England / Dianne Berg -- Imps of hell: young people, murder and the early English press / Ben Parsons. |
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9781787442764 (electronic bk.) |
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1787442764 (electronic bk.) |
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9781783273119 (hardback) |
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1783273119 (hardback) |
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